Personal utilities receptacle



7, 1943. M. EVANS 2,336,234

PERSONAL UTILITIES RECEPTACLE Filed April- 10, 1942' 2 Sheets-Sheet l L I l P.

I I 7 u m v Dec. 7, 1943. M. EVANS 2,336,234

PERSONAL UTILITIES RECEPTACLE Filed April 10, 1942 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Inventor Manuel Evans WW HM Patented Dec. 7 1943 r UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE ransom]. UTILITIES nacarraona Manuel Evans, Allentown, Pa. Application April 10, 1942, Serial No. 438,514

1 Claim.

This invention relates to new and useful immovements in personal utility packages or books such as are used ordinarilyfor containing safety matches.

The principal object of the present invention is to provide a container or book for holding conveniently such items as needles, thread, toothpicks and also matches, such articles bein frequently needed by travelers.

Another important object of the invention is to provide a holder of the character statedwhich can be divided when one of the items becomes exhausted in order to save the remaining items for future use.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will become apparent to the reader of the following description.

In the drawings-- v Figure 1 represents a front ele ational view of the book.

Figure 2 is a front elevational view of the book divided after, for instance, the matches have become exhausted.

Figure 3 is a side elevational view.

Figure 4' is an open elevational view. I

Figure 5 is an open plan view showing the back and the toothpicks in place.

Figure 6 is an edge elevational view of th structure shown in Figure 5.

Figure 7 is a section on the-line 7-1 of Figure 1.

. Figure 8 is a section on the line 8--B of Figure 4.

Figure 9 is a plan view of the blank.

- Referring to the drawings wherein like 1111- merals designate like parts, it can be seen that the book is formed from a T-shaped blank sheet 5, the head portion of this sheet defining flaps I, 8-,and an area 1. Just below the head portion of the blank are three fold lines 8, 9 and Ill.

- This permits this area to be bent toward the head and then downwardly to define a trough a for the reception of a strip of matches II and a short card I! onwhich difi'erentcolored thread 1 l3 and a needle II can be carriedand this strip of matches ll and the card I2 are held in place I by wire fasteners i5, Hi. The strip of matches II and the card H are secured in place in one side of the portion '1 of the head of-theblank while at the opposite sideand running longhtudinally'of the portion I is a strip of toothpicks ll secured in place by a wire fastener 11..

It can now be seen that in order to complete the book, the flaps 8, 6 are folded in over thestrip I! of toothpicks, and then the portion I and inwardly folded flaps 6, 6 are swung to the right in Figure 6 so that it backs against an area l8 of the-tail portion ofthe T-shaped blank.,

The remaining. portion ofthe tail portion of the blank is divided into a pair offlaps i9, i9 which are to be bentover the match strip ll and the card I2 with their free ends disposed into the trough a as shown clearly in Figures The blank 5 has a scored line 26 extending from the slit 2! defining the flaps l9, is, through the other end of the blank, so that when for instance the matches I I have been used, and probably by this time also the toothpicks M5, the book can be divided, by being torn along the scored line 20, thus permitting a person to retain the card l2 with the thread l3 and needle it, or

the other side of the book, of course, dependingclaimed hereinafter.

Having described the invention, claimed as newis:

An article holding hook comprising an elongated sheet of material having an intermediate and opposite end areas, respectively, and a pair of'flaps at opposite sides of one end area, respectively, said one end area. being adapted to support two difierent articles on one face thereof upon opposite sides of the longitudinal center of the sheet and a third article on its opposite face, the 'pair of flaps being foldable over the third article, the intermediate area being foldable on said one and area over said flaps to form a cover for said third article, the other. end area 'of the sheet being split in the longitudinal center of the sheet and forming a ,pair of flaps foldable on the intermediate area, over the two articles, respectively, said oneend area and the intermediate area being scored in alignment with said slit, and the first-mentioned pair of flaps when folded being spaced apartupon opposite ,sides of the longitudinal center of the sheet. whereby when the third article is removed, said book may be torn apart to providetwo separate books for holding the two different articles.

MANUEL EVANS.

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